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11-letter words containing c, l, a, r, s

  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
  • collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
  • collaterals — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
  • color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
  • coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
  • colorcaster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
  • commercials — Plural form of commercial.
  • commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
  • conirostral — (of a bird) having a bill shaped like a cone
  • conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
  • consolatory — consoling or tending to console; comforting
  • consolatrix — a woman who consoles
  • construable — that can be construed
  • contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
  • conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
  • cor anglais — a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
  • coral bells — a perennial, ornamental alumroot (Heuchera sanguinea) native to SW North America, with racemes of drooping pink or white flowers
  • coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
  • cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
  • cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
  • corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
  • corollaries — Plural form of corollary.
  • corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
  • cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
  • counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
  • cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • craftsmanly — Befitting a craftsman.
  • cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
  • cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
  • crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
  • crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
  • crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
  • credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
  • crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
  • crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
  • criminalese — the jargon of criminals
  • criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
  • criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
  • cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
  • cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
  • crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
  • crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
  • crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
  • crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
  • crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
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